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We're diving into yet another weeks-worth of accessory releases. As always, we've got an eye out on the world of wearables, the connected home, and just about anything else that plays nice with your Android phone or tabl...

A new study found that women who play computer games for an hour a day are at risk for becoming overweight.

A spacecraft tool is now improving car safety by stress-testing many of the internal computer systems to be sure they work well when the car is on the road.

Three years ago, environmentalist Bill McKibben wrote an article for Rolling Stone that catapulted the divestment movement into popular conversation. But it was a fairly subtle article, slightly hidden in the magazine’...

To help curb pollution before it enters homes and buildings, the Breathe Brick would help filter particulates out and pass them to a collection hopper. It's just a prototype, for now. The post To help curb pollution, thi...

Is it a bit too early to start talking about the iPhone 7? After all the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus have barely gone on sale for a week! That being said we suppose some of you guys who are skipping the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus f...

As we have said many times in the past, regardless of how good the hardware is for mobile devices, or how slick the operating system is, at the end of the day it also comes down to its ecosystem. Granted we probably will...

Microsoft's Hololens isn't ready yet, but the company is already encouraging developers -- in Russia at least -- to use its toolchain to create virtual reality apps for PCs and phones running Windows. Or rather, it was, ...

 Getaround, the peer-to-peer car rental startup that launched on the Disrupt NY stage in 2011, recently hit revenues in the tens of millions of dollars, Jessica Scorpio told TechCrunch. And in the last six months, Getar...

Curious lines running down slopes on the Martian surface may be streaks of super-salty brine, said the latest findings Monday in the scientific quest for extra-terrestrial liquid water, a prerequisite for life.

Praluent is now going to be made available in Europe as the European Commission signs off on the anti-cholesterol drug from Regeneron and Sanofi.

Shortly after Tim Cook met with the Chinese President, Apple’s CEO has met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as expected. The Times of India reports that the two of them discussed the possibility of bringing Ap...

Google Cardboard is a cardboard smartphone holder that is designed to use your smartphone to make a VR entertainment system on the cheap. Microsoft now has a competitor to Google Cardboard that has debuted called VR Kit....

On Monday, Google will introduce two new kinds of ads at the annual Advertising Week in New York that go after Facebook's success with targeting display ads.

 Data analysts and “information cascade” experts are using their skills to frustrate the spread of terrorist ideology from groups like ISIS, who grow increasingly adept at online recruitment.

The idea of peak oil has haunted us for decades . I say haunt because the concept that sooner or later we'd run out of the stuff has contributed to some terrible public policy in the United States.

Scientists have found liquid water on Mars -- does it mean life can exist there, too?

Legend has it that back in the early 2000s, Oregon studio Buzz Monkey was working on an officially licensed South Park game for the original Xbox. The game never shipped, but an incredibly early version appears to have m...

Taking stock in the video and television world. On today's episode: The video rights deals keep coming, Verizon gets ready to put big money behind its go90 service, Amazon's twitch TV gets ready to take on YouTube. TV is...

 At-home professional hair color delivery startup Madison Reed tells us they’ve pulled in $16.1 million in Series C financing to “scale the business and invest in expanding marketing, specifically on TV.” The move...

If there’s one thing Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P leaks haven’t really nail down yet, it’s pricing information. The general consensus is that the Nexus 5X will be the cheaper new Nexus 5, while the Nexus 6P will be an eve...

When you are groggy, just waking up in the morning, it’s hard to gauge what type of person you’re going to be. Some days you are the person who springs forth into the morning with stars in your eyes and rainbows trai...